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i just don't think -- i think there's one person, steve jobs, who is a unique blend of chromosomes, who can get unique touch with a person like martha, to get in touch. we hear 3d movies aren't doing well. four out of five households make less than $55,000 a year in this country. if you don't think that's an interesting way to live, try doing it for some of you that don't. they can't afford 3d. hollywood is starting to flounder. it would be interesting to bring it back if sony teamed up with google to really improve their user experience, or teamed up with disney, or teamed up with a content company that knows how to entertain. and use navigation. because i can't find half of the things that i hear about. i'm in the business. i think those are the two trends that we're going to start to see. better user experience and actually going out and teaching people how to do it. >> great. something about -- we all touched on this a little bit. i do work in the video space. it might be self-serving. the whole concept of how we are consuming. i'm a consumer of media, news, journalism, movies, tele
i just don't think -- i think there's one person, steve jobs, who is a unique blend of chromosomes, who can get unique touch with a person like martha, to get in touch. we hear 3d movies aren't doing well. four out of five households make less than $55,000 a year in this country. if you don't think that's an interesting way to live, try doing it for some of you that don't. they can't afford 3d. hollywood is starting to flounder. it would be interesting to bring it back if sony teamed up with...
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and charles, steve, you know, i've worked at the "washington post," i forgot cnn. i've worked at npr. i've worked at the hill. these guys are the best. i am truly grateful to have you as my colleague. so thank you very much. [applause] >> and i want to also say thank you to ed rogers, shannon green and sheldon greene, who are here tonight. you know, steve just touched on this briefly, but there was a moment back then when i thought my career was over, and i thought that, you know, a career that had taken many careers on 10 years to go to washington, and today many people thought we're going to a book signing but, you know, you're really here for a celebration but i don't know if it celebrations in those survivor tv shows, but this is what it feels like to me. hey, i, head back above the waves, i'm standing. and you can't get to that point without people who care about you, people who love you, and people who take aside and tell you when you're wrong and how to do with the situation and give you kathleen hicks only people entering tonight are my friends, especially
and charles, steve, you know, i've worked at the "washington post," i forgot cnn. i've worked at npr. i've worked at the hill. these guys are the best. i am truly grateful to have you as my colleague. so thank you very much. [applause] >> and i want to also say thank you to ed rogers, shannon green and sheldon greene, who are here tonight. you know, steve just touched on this briefly, but there was a moment back then when i thought my career was over, and i thought that, you...
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i just don't think -- i think there's one person, steve jobs, who is a unique blend of chromosomes, who can get unique touch with a person like martha, to get in touch. we hear 3d movies aren't doing well. four out of five households make less than $55,000 a year in this country. if you don't think that's an interesting way to live, try doing it for some of you that don't. they can't afford 3d. hollywood is starting to flounder. it would be interesting to bring it back if sony teamed up with google to really improve their user experience, or teamed up with disney, or teamed up with a content company that knows how to entertain. and use navigation. because i can't find half of the things that i hear about. i'm in the business. i think those are the two trends that we're going to start to see. better user experience and actually going out and teaching people how to do it. >> great. something about -- we all touched on this a little bit. i do work in the video space. it might be self-serving. the whole concept of how we are consuming. i'm a consumer of media, news, journalism, movies, tele
i just don't think -- i think there's one person, steve jobs, who is a unique blend of chromosomes, who can get unique touch with a person like martha, to get in touch. we hear 3d movies aren't doing well. four out of five households make less than $55,000 a year in this country. if you don't think that's an interesting way to live, try doing it for some of you that don't. they can't afford 3d. hollywood is starting to flounder. it would be interesting to bring it back if sony teamed up with...
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steve ross noticed your book is selling on amazon. but no one would publish it. he published ever since. >> host: when did you start writing? >> guest: probably in kindergarten. very upset about the marshall tax rate. >> host: seriously? >> guest: i am joking. >> host: did you start writing for a school newspaper? i was never on that path though i always like writing. even when i was a lawyer i would run -- i would take weekends off and write for the human life review or a law review. i was arbuckle editor at michigan. i always liked to research and writing better than anything else i was doing. i don't think i was a founding editor but the cornell review conservative newspaper. a lot of conservative newspapers were started by people working for the main campus newspaper and could get something published and started their own newspaper. not us. we heard just right wingers. the first issue. the layout was insane. mistakes and huge chunks of articles missing. errors throughout the paper but we were very enthusiastically. >> host: who is kerri? >> guest: my mentor f
steve ross noticed your book is selling on amazon. but no one would publish it. he published ever since. >> host: when did you start writing? >> guest: probably in kindergarten. very upset about the marshall tax rate. >> host: seriously? >> guest: i am joking. >> host: did you start writing for a school newspaper? i was never on that path though i always like writing. even when i was a lawyer i would run -- i would take weekends off and write for the human life...
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almami, please. >> yes, you may choose, podium or -- >> thank you very much, steve. thank you to the willson center. thank you, ambassador for the opportunity to say something here about the elections in congo. on behalf i wish to thank all of you for coming. by way of introduction, i've been an effort for some time particularly in the war-torn countries and not so war-torn countries. recently we had worked in the nigeria and the nigerian elections so now looking at the drc we have been in the drc on and off since 1997, and i am very pleased to say most of the programs that we've run in the drc have been funded by the u.s. government. lately we have funding from the germans and canada. right now we're funded by the u.s. government working on civil education in the congo, and we have seen exactly what we thought would happen and that is it is quite interested in taking responsibility and reacting to the recent elections. drc elections for 2011. what we have at stake? the ambassador did mention a few of those but what i think we have to look at what we have at stake is
almami, please. >> yes, you may choose, podium or -- >> thank you very much, steve. thank you to the willson center. thank you, ambassador for the opportunity to say something here about the elections in congo. on behalf i wish to thank all of you for coming. by way of introduction, i've been an effort for some time particularly in the war-torn countries and not so war-torn countries. recently we had worked in the nigeria and the nigerian elections so now looking at the drc we have...
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. >> host: illinois, steve, democratic line. >> caller: i want to let you know i support the debt ceiling deal that was reached by congress yesterday and signed by president obama into law. >> host: okay. >> caller: i just want to let you know. and what i will be voting for president obama and in the upcoming election cycle. >> host: do you think the debt deal helps the president? >> caller: hi, i'd like to welcome everybody from dover, ohio. i failed to understand why iowa has such a big importance of being the first caucus or whatever. to my understanding they have a straw poll, caucus, and then a primary later. the straw poll and the caucus are strictly people that have been paid to show up. they are given transportation, and whatever. >> host: mike glover, clarification there. >> the straw poll which will happen in about a week and a half is an event where candidates do do -- they bus pee to straw poll to vote for them. they pass out tickets to people to vote for them. so it's a competition. it's all about who can turn out people to show up at a particular place at a particular night
. >> host: illinois, steve, democratic line. >> caller: i want to let you know i support the debt ceiling deal that was reached by congress yesterday and signed by president obama into law. >> host: okay. >> caller: i just want to let you know. and what i will be voting for president obama and in the upcoming election cycle. >> host: do you think the debt deal helps the president? >> caller: hi, i'd like to welcome everybody from dover, ohio. i failed to...
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steve, let's start with you. >> well, he really didn't have much choice. after a second bull run, he could go four directions, literally, the four treks of the compass. -- directions of the compass. and if he went to washington, he had not the arms or the heavy artillery to besiege washington. and if he went back south, he was admitting that his plan, his offensive plan had failed. if he went west into the shenandoah valley, he could supply his men, but he would just be marking time, and he would lose the advantage, the initiative. so he ended up going north where there was a lot of food and a lot of -- they thought they would raise marylanders to join the confederate cause which didn't turn out to be true. but he really didn't -- he couldn't stay still, and this was his best option. >> jim? >> well, i think lee was always an avid reader of northern newspapers and a follower of northern politics. and he was well aware that congressional elections were scheduled for october and november of 1862 and even wrote to jefferson davis saying that by invading maryl
steve, let's start with you. >> well, he really didn't have much choice. after a second bull run, he could go four directions, literally, the four treks of the compass. -- directions of the compass. and if he went to washington, he had not the arms or the heavy artillery to besiege washington. and if he went back south, he was admitting that his plan, his offensive plan had failed. if he went west into the shenandoah valley, he could supply his men, but he would just be marking time, and...
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chairman, yes, steve. i'm from tanzania. there's a certain nervousness about chinese or asian engagement with africa. and i'd like to get your perspective as to why you think that -- that nervousness i'm detecting from washington and london and paris why do you think that might be the case the west is nervous about african engagement with the east? >> nervousness about chinese engagement in africa. i hope that the panelists will be able to respond to do this. you want to share with us from your perspective from the indian perspectiv perspective? >> there is a question? yes, please. >> there may be different models but it's useful to have goals and the millennium development goals have indeed spurred a number of actions. the development community really now wonders how you see the >> thank you. i don't know if you're picking on the politicians. [laughter] >> but i'll give it a shot. now, i think one of the issues that we need to perhaps look at is that is china's renewed engagement with africa or the south for that matter use
chairman, yes, steve. i'm from tanzania. there's a certain nervousness about chinese or asian engagement with africa. and i'd like to get your perspective as to why you think that -- that nervousness i'm detecting from washington and london and paris why do you think that might be the case the west is nervous about african engagement with the east? >> nervousness about chinese engagement in africa. i hope that the panelists will be able to respond to do this. you want to share with us...
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>> thank you come steve and to all of you for being here and to the circle for having us. it's a treat to be here and otter to be part of this series. i start work on this book actually as a detour from a book i'd been working on for quite awhile on the history of democracy from the ancient world to the end of the 19th century. and i was an angel in the teaching at the university of cambridge giving lectures on american political fox, when i came back to the u.s. for a symposium after the election of barack obama coming in on that trip, i reread "dreams from my father," and "the audacity of hope," and out of the themes i felt from the seven lectures were developed from his book "the audacity to go," so i looked around to see what had been written about this book and i found that the answer was nothing and people were treating it as if it were another book by a political hack, laying out his campaign program. but instead it's written about a jury well-educated professor of constitutional law, reflecting on american history. so why undertook to the kind of intellectual biogr
>> thank you come steve and to all of you for being here and to the circle for having us. it's a treat to be here and otter to be part of this series. i start work on this book actually as a detour from a book i'd been working on for quite awhile on the history of democracy from the ancient world to the end of the 19th century. and i was an angel in the teaching at the university of cambridge giving lectures on american political fox, when i came back to the u.s. for a symposium after the...
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um, doug schmidt and steve scherr who beat tommy norman in this trial liked tommy norman. i wasn't particularly friendly toward tommy norman. i didn't describe his style, but if you could imagine -- remember stanley tucci sort of slithering through the devil wore prada? that was kind of tommy's -- tommy would never say "said" if he could say "aver." he was a pretend white house kind of guy with a widow's peak. schmidt and scherr felt so badly for him that they seriously discussed offering him a partnership in their firm. [laughter] they liked, they liked tommy norman. a lot of people around the halls of justice liked tommy norman and were sorry to see that it had all, that he had messed up big time. it sort of wiped out all the accomplishments of the rest of his life. and he's no longer among us. so may he rest in peace. >> we'd like to remind our listening audience that this is a program with the commonwealth club of california, and we're listening to "double play: how dan white got away with murder and changed san francisco" with reporter and author mike weiss. unfortuna
um, doug schmidt and steve scherr who beat tommy norman in this trial liked tommy norman. i wasn't particularly friendly toward tommy norman. i didn't describe his style, but if you could imagine -- remember stanley tucci sort of slithering through the devil wore prada? that was kind of tommy's -- tommy would never say "said" if he could say "aver." he was a pretend white house kind of guy with a widow's peak. schmidt and scherr felt so badly for him that they seriously...
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steve got that problem. but i think whether you run within the democratic party or not, i give you do not become cynical, do not give up on the political process. we are fighting for not only our generation, but for our kids and our grandchildren. i have six grandchildren. i take their future seriously. okay? and we do not have the option of not fighting. we can beat these guys. we can beat them. nobody believes in their ideology. nobody thinks that children in america should not have health care or that workers should not have lights. [applause] they are a fringe movement, and if the democrats have the guts to go out and organize, if we work together on this thing, we can beat them and beat them badly. [applause] but we can't do it -- i know that it's hard. look, i know. people all over the country are disappointed. i'm disappointed. but you can't give up. we have to raise that progressive agenda, make it loud and clear, organize people about that, educate. because what we are fighting for is so important i
steve got that problem. but i think whether you run within the democratic party or not, i give you do not become cynical, do not give up on the political process. we are fighting for not only our generation, but for our kids and our grandchildren. i have six grandchildren. i take their future seriously. okay? and we do not have the option of not fighting. we can beat these guys. we can beat them. nobody believes in their ideology. nobody thinks that children in america should not have health...
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medicare and medicaid services insurance direct or, steve larsen testified these provisions appear powerful tool to state regulators by allowing them to reject or modify any rate increase excessive or unjustified. this is two hours and 10 minutes. >> the u.n. is somehow performed in empowering states to consumers. in a decade before the affordable care was passed, relentlessly increasing health-insurance premiums post a heavy tax on families and small businesses. over those 10 years come at premiums for a family, employer-sponsored coverage more than doubled. small businesses simply couldn't afford it anymore and began dropping coverage. congress had to activate it activate it in passing the football karaites enacted reforms to detain this runaway premium growth are today's hearing will explore how those reforms are already protecting tumors. it's basic economics that one of the surest ways to bring down prices is your open and tough competition. for the first time in our history, health reform applies this basic principle to the health insurance market. in 21st income americans in every st
medicare and medicaid services insurance direct or, steve larsen testified these provisions appear powerful tool to state regulators by allowing them to reject or modify any rate increase excessive or unjustified. this is two hours and 10 minutes. >> the u.n. is somehow performed in empowering states to consumers. in a decade before the affordable care was passed, relentlessly increasing health-insurance premiums post a heavy tax on families and small businesses. over those 10 years come...
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doug schmidt and steve who built the lead could beat him in the trial like tommy norman. i wasn't particularly friendly towards tommy norman. i didn't describe his style but if you can imagine remember stanley, the sort of slithering through fidel for prada? that was kind of tommy's -- she never would say said if he could say aver. he was a very pretentious kind of guy with a widow's peak. he went on working. schmidt and shur felt so badly for him that they seriously discussed offering him a partnership in their firm. [laughter] um, committee like tommy norman. a lot of people are of justice like tommy norman and they were sorry to see that it had all -- that he had messed up big time. is sort of white towel of the accomplishments of the rest of his life. i mean, he's no longer among us. so may he rest in peace. >> we'd like to remind our listening audience this is a program with the commonwealth club of california and we are listening to "double play" house dan white got away with murder and changed san francisco with reporter and author mike weiss. unfortunately we have
doug schmidt and steve who built the lead could beat him in the trial like tommy norman. i wasn't particularly friendly towards tommy norman. i didn't describe his style but if you can imagine remember stanley, the sort of slithering through fidel for prada? that was kind of tommy's -- she never would say said if he could say aver. he was a very pretentious kind of guy with a widow's peak. he went on working. schmidt and shur felt so badly for him that they seriously discussed offering him a...
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i wanted to take a minute to say that i think we have just seen steve jobs step down as ceo of apple to become chairman and if you look at -- the only person i have ever known who was able to actually merge the two world's completely with an artist's i as well as the definition of what great engineering is. i am sure he and the company will do well in the future. from my perspective that is the perfect example of the kind of union we see in the future in other companies and other collaboration's. from my perspective, this is the first time the mctaggart collector has been given by someone not employed in television broadcasting or production. i don't know if that mean the bar has been raised or lowered but i will do my best. it is an honor to be here. as an outsider, when he spoke here two years ago james murdoch described himself as a crazy relative everyone is embarrassed by. i wonder what he would say now. [applause] if james is the family outcast i am not sure what that makes me. am i the geek in the corner? mit alien species? am i the android? you get the idea. don't worry. i pr
i wanted to take a minute to say that i think we have just seen steve jobs step down as ceo of apple to become chairman and if you look at -- the only person i have ever known who was able to actually merge the two world's completely with an artist's i as well as the definition of what great engineering is. i am sure he and the company will do well in the future. from my perspective that is the perfect example of the kind of union we see in the future in other companies and other...
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we really can't build it on anything that steve jobs holds over his head because at the end of the day, you are not framing and creating content for telling a story to a device that is going to take declared obsolete in the 11 months. the future of the book regardless of the format or how it's distributed has to do with selling one book at a time to one person at a time and making the book have so much value that somebody like myself did at the london book fair wouldn't care about any price barriers or any content barriers in order to get it. we are always going to have print books forever. you can write that down and i will sign my name we will have print books forever what we will also have the books forever, and the future of the book will involve all of us talking about where one stands in relation to the other and how we can get innovative and intelligent people to talk about ways to make the industry better. so with that i would like to introduce our first panelists. jed lyons of rahman and little publishing group. rahman and little publishes about 1200 books annually under the i
we really can't build it on anything that steve jobs holds over his head because at the end of the day, you are not framing and creating content for telling a story to a device that is going to take declared obsolete in the 11 months. the future of the book regardless of the format or how it's distributed has to do with selling one book at a time to one person at a time and making the book have so much value that somebody like myself did at the london book fair wouldn't care about any price...
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steve just touched on this briefly, but there was a moment back then when i thought that my career was over, and i thought, you know, a career that had taken many years to build is going down the tubes fast, and today many people felt we are going to a book signing which you are really here for a celebration. i don't know if the had a celebration at the end of those survivors tv shows the this is what it feels like to me like i got my head back above the waves. i'm standing. and you can't get to that point without people who care about you, people who love you and to key was idf tell you when you're wrong and how to deal with the situation and get some council. so many of you in the room tonight are those people for me, i'm high friends and those of you that our journalists, you know how tenuous our profession is and how things go up and down, ratings, editors, relationships, you never know. so tonight i just want to tell you this is a celebration for me, a celebration of love. i want to express thanks to my friends and family and my wife, my son, tony. [applause] about, you know, you
steve just touched on this briefly, but there was a moment back then when i thought that my career was over, and i thought, you know, a career that had taken many years to build is going down the tubes fast, and today many people felt we are going to a book signing which you are really here for a celebration. i don't know if the had a celebration at the end of those survivors tv shows the this is what it feels like to me like i got my head back above the waves. i'm standing. and you can't get...
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now, we can -- when we discuss the future of the book, we can't build it on anything that steve jobs holds over his head at macworld. at the end of the day, you are not screaming and creating content or telling a story to a vice that is going to be declared obsolete in seven months. the future of the book, regardless of the format for how it's distributed really has to do with selling one book at a time to one person at a time and really making the book have so much value that somebody like myself did at the london book fair will not care about any price barriers for content barriers in order to get it. and we are always going to have print books forever. you can write that down. we will have print books forever, but we will also have e-book forever in the future of the book will involve all of us talking about where one stands in relation to the other and how we can get innovative and intelligent people to really talk about ways to make the industry better. so with that, i would like to introduce our first panelist. jed lyons is the president and ceo of rowman & littlefield publishi
now, we can -- when we discuss the future of the book, we can't build it on anything that steve jobs holds over his head at macworld. at the end of the day, you are not screaming and creating content or telling a story to a vice that is going to be declared obsolete in seven months. the future of the book, regardless of the format for how it's distributed really has to do with selling one book at a time to one person at a time and really making the book have so much value that somebody like...
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steve, sit, please. [laughter] i, again, have the honor of introducing the luncheon speakers. today we're extremely fortunate to have robert and chuck, the trustees of the medicare and social security system. for three years these slots have been vacant, and fortunately for us, bob and chuck have been selected. as everybody knows, bob has a long career in public policy. he was the director of the congressional budget office and now president of the urban institute. chuck started in a strange direction as a ph.d. in quantum chemistry from berkeley, but then was on the hill, and president bush's economic council and now research fellow at the hoover institutions. they were chosen for their high level experience, their acute policy insights, and for their many talents, not the least of which is a rare ability to command wide respect across the policy spectrum. chuck is going to talk about social security. bob has a slightly harder job of talking about medicare. they are both delighted to take questions at the end of their remarks, so let's welcome them here today. [applause] >> t
steve, sit, please. [laughter] i, again, have the honor of introducing the luncheon speakers. today we're extremely fortunate to have robert and chuck, the trustees of the medicare and social security system. for three years these slots have been vacant, and fortunately for us, bob and chuck have been selected. as everybody knows, bob has a long career in public policy. he was the director of the congressional budget office and now president of the urban institute. chuck started in a strange...
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like with steve jobs' iphone now. you have all the imitator iphones or the apple computer or, oh, so many things. people, you put out a good product, other people imitate it. fox news, again, is totally crushing the ratings. and, again, i've never worked for fox news. um, or any rupert murdoch enterprise. they crush the weak, they put on really lively tv shows that are far more intellectual than anything on msnbc or cnn even though they're uglier on msnbc and cnn to make it look like they're smart, and nobody thinks to imitate them. um, it is -- liberal journalists can't get away from the idea that they, they are the state-run media, and they will tell us what we are allowed to hear. and even as competition keeps coming at them from talk radio, from the internet, from fox news, nope, that's it, we're not going to tell you the other side. won't do it. >> host: what's your professional relationship with bill o'reilly. >> guest: um, oh, i just did his show on thursday. i go on and fight with him. [laughter] and i think i
like with steve jobs' iphone now. you have all the imitator iphones or the apple computer or, oh, so many things. people, you put out a good product, other people imitate it. fox news, again, is totally crushing the ratings. and, again, i've never worked for fox news. um, or any rupert murdoch enterprise. they crush the weak, they put on really lively tv shows that are far more intellectual than anything on msnbc or cnn even though they're uglier on msnbc and cnn to make it look like they're...
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steve got that problem. but i think whether you run within the democratic party or not, i give you do not become cynical, do not give up on the political process. we are fighting for not only our generation, but for our kids and our grandchildren. i have six grandchildren. i take their future seriously. okay? and we do not have the option of not fighting. we can beat these guys. we can beat them. nobody believes in their ideology. nobody thinks that children in america should not have health care or that workers should not have lights. [applause] they are a fringe movement, and if the democrats have the guts to go out and organize, if we work together on this thing, we can beat them and beat them badly. [applause] but we can't do it -- i know that it's hard. look, i know. people all over the country are disappointed. i'm disappointed. but you can't give up. we have to raise that progressive agenda, make it loud and clear, organize people about that, educate. because what we are fighting for is so important i
steve got that problem. but i think whether you run within the democratic party or not, i give you do not become cynical, do not give up on the political process. we are fighting for not only our generation, but for our kids and our grandchildren. i have six grandchildren. i take their future seriously. okay? and we do not have the option of not fighting. we can beat these guys. we can beat them. nobody believes in their ideology. nobody thinks that children in america should not have health...
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[applause] >> thank you very much, steve. i'm a great lover of this wonderful institution, the national constitution center and i also wanted to remind you that we have an exhibit upstairs in posterity hauled between the signers hall and the main exhibit area on lincoln that i hope you will get to take a look at some time in the coming weeks. it is obligatory for a person sitting in this chair to praise the author and to praise his luck, and ethically i think anyone who agrees to perform my role as interlocutor has to genuinely believe that and the other occasions in which i have done this, i have done this. but this really is in a cage and in which i want to go a little little bit over the top because i do think adam is a very special historian and this is a very very special book. as steve described adam's career he really has been at a remarkably early age a very important public intellectual. speaking to a wide audience about a wide variety of subjects i think since he graduated from harvard, not that long ago. and now he
[applause] >> thank you very much, steve. i'm a great lover of this wonderful institution, the national constitution center and i also wanted to remind you that we have an exhibit upstairs in posterity hauled between the signers hall and the main exhibit area on lincoln that i hope you will get to take a look at some time in the coming weeks. it is obligatory for a person sitting in this chair to praise the author and to praise his luck, and ethically i think anyone who agrees to perform...
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steve will say his organization. who will be the filter when that news hits whatever it will hit in your terminal? >> if somebody published a rumor, the ceo of a company there would be some damaging -- >> sleeping with dogs. >> this is my leitmotif as a huge fan of these technologies. these are new instances of old problems and the old problem is there is more leverage so if these are legally damaging actionable events there will be something in the information eco sphere which will strike a new balance. there will be responsible blotters and news organizations that will give prominence and a solution will evolve. >> have the law caught up with this? >> larry would know better than i would but my sense is it will make things worse for national security. if the corporate sector feels threatens new laws will make it more punitive to trade secrets and intellectual property will be enlisted to crack down and ip architecture will be enlisted to make it harder. the danger of overcriminalizing might be just as great as the
steve will say his organization. who will be the filter when that news hits whatever it will hit in your terminal? >> if somebody published a rumor, the ceo of a company there would be some damaging -- >> sleeping with dogs. >> this is my leitmotif as a huge fan of these technologies. these are new instances of old problems and the old problem is there is more leverage so if these are legally damaging actionable events there will be something in the information eco sphere...
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[applause] >> thank you very much, steve. i'm a great lover of this wonderful institution, the national constitution center and i also wanted to remind you that we have an exhibit upstairs in posterity hauled between the signers hall and the main exhibit area on lincoln that i hope you will get to take a look at some time in the coming weeks. it is obligatory for a person sitting in this chair to praise the author and to praise his luck, and ethically i think anyone who agrees to perform my role as interlocutor has to genuinely believe that and the other occasions in which i have done this, i have done this. but this really is in a cage and in which i want to go a little little bit over the top because i do think adam is a very special historian and this is a very very special book. as steve described adam's career he really has been at a remarkably early age a very important public intellectual. speaking to a wide audience about a wide variety of subjects i think since he graduated from harvard, not that long ago. and now he
[applause] >> thank you very much, steve. i'm a great lover of this wonderful institution, the national constitution center and i also wanted to remind you that we have an exhibit upstairs in posterity hauled between the signers hall and the main exhibit area on lincoln that i hope you will get to take a look at some time in the coming weeks. it is obligatory for a person sitting in this chair to praise the author and to praise his luck, and ethically i think anyone who agrees to perform...
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so we have the real risk, steve, of going into a double-digit recession now. we need to do, therefore, the following and it's a very careful balance. first we need a short-term stimulus by a payroll tax, holiday or a substantial reduction in employer and employee payroll taxes. second, we've had these continuing impasses on the debt limit. we just went through this over the summer and only put a band-aid on it. you know, winston churchill said the american people always do the right thing after they've exhausted all alternatives. we've now exhausted all alternatives. this could be the shock that gets us to a deficit reduction package. now, mind you, it needs to be a long-term one in impact. if we were to do that immediately now, it would send a terrifically positive signal to the market that finally this crisis brought us to a genuine deficit reduction, long-term package dealing with our structural deficits, putting entitlements and tax revenues on the table. and third,and the third is the s part. china, which has always been hoping that their own currency cou
so we have the real risk, steve, of going into a double-digit recession now. we need to do, therefore, the following and it's a very careful balance. first we need a short-term stimulus by a payroll tax, holiday or a substantial reduction in employer and employee payroll taxes. second, we've had these continuing impasses on the debt limit. we just went through this over the summer and only put a band-aid on it. you know, winston churchill said the american people always do the right thing after...
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steve got that problem. but i think whether you run within the democratic party or not, i give you do not become cynical, do not give up on the political process. we are fighting for not only our generation, but for our kids and our grandchildren. i have six grandchildren. i take their future seriously. okay? and we do not have the option of not fighting. we can beat these guys. we can beat them. nobody believes in their ideology. nobody thinks that children in america should not have health care or that workers should not have lights. [applause] hey are a i'm not .. if we work together on this thing, we can beat them and beat them badly. [applause] but we can't do it -- i know that it's hard. look, i know. people all over the country are disappointed. i'm disappointed. but you can't give up. we have to raise that progressive agenda, make it loud and clear, organize people about that, educate. because what we are fighting for is so important it is the future of this country. so i just want it. >>ys thank you
steve got that problem. but i think whether you run within the democratic party or not, i give you do not become cynical, do not give up on the political process. we are fighting for not only our generation, but for our kids and our grandchildren. i have six grandchildren. i take their future seriously. okay? and we do not have the option of not fighting. we can beat these guys. we can beat them. nobody believes in their ideology. nobody thinks that children in america should not have health...
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and then derrick right down here in front. >> thank you, steve. i'm will davis with united nations office here in dc. just a wick -- quick question for the ambassador. does the u.n. peace keeping mission have the resources necessary to carry out the role that's been asked to do this support of the elections particularly since the indian contingent has announced they are taking home their helicopters. are they going to need to divert resources from the already mandate occupying activity of protection of civilians in order to help on the election front? thank you. >> thank you. yes, sir. right in front. >> herbert. i wonder whether one could get the members of the panel to talk about politics. in other words, why have we moved from a top round -- two round to a one round system? why are the election lists unavailable? isn't it a little bit almost unrealistic and perhaps even demeaning for the congoese to assume which is the -- seems to me the assumption behind some of the statements made that this is all inefficiency. coming late to the table. as if
and then derrick right down here in front. >> thank you, steve. i'm will davis with united nations office here in dc. just a wick -- quick question for the ambassador. does the u.n. peace keeping mission have the resources necessary to carry out the role that's been asked to do this support of the elections particularly since the indian contingent has announced they are taking home their helicopters. are they going to need to divert resources from the already mandate occupying activity of...
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i wanted to say that we've seen steve jobs to step down as ceo of apple to become chairman. he's the only person that's never been able to actually merge the two worlds with an artists eye, as well as the definition of what grade engineering is. i'm sure that he and the company will do well in the future. from my perspective, that's the perfect example of the kind of union that we should see in the future in other companies and collaborations. from my perspective again, this is the first time in the lecture has been given by someone not employed in broadcast or production. i'm not sure whether it means the bar has been raised or lowered, but i'll do my best. it's an honor to be here as i said as an outsider when he spoke here two years ago, james murdoch described himself as the crazy relative that everyone is is embarrassed by. i guess i wondered what he's saying now. but if james, if james is the family outcast, i'm not sure what that makes me. right, am i geek in the corner. is this -- am i the alien species, am i the android? am i this? you know, you get the idea. don't
i wanted to say that we've seen steve jobs to step down as ceo of apple to become chairman. he's the only person that's never been able to actually merge the two worlds with an artists eye, as well as the definition of what grade engineering is. i'm sure that he and the company will do well in the future. from my perspective, that's the perfect example of the kind of union that we should see in the future in other companies and collaborations. from my perspective again, this is the first time...
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. >> caller: oh, good morning, steve. thanks, c-span and everybody that works there. i have several points. i live in a small community. we have a town probably 20 miles from here. it's called boine city. they're going to be building a factory that produces surgical instruments. they're based, i think, out of sue saint marie, michigan but there's also some very negatives. i had my wages slashed, a summer job i had. i worked in education by $1.50 an hour down to $10 an hour. that's not a positive. and there's really no recourse. >> host: so, cathy, tie that in to the president's three-day bus tour through the midwest. caller: -- >> caller: why doesn't he come to smaller communities in lewis michigan, and a tribal land where you have tribal land up here in emmett county. it's really -- the truth is that it's -- most often it's a very set of factories that supports communities like this. it isn't just -- >> host: it's also a big tourist town, isn't it. >> caller: tourism doesn't pay high wages. maybe for the business owners, for some of them but not for the general worke
. >> caller: oh, good morning, steve. thanks, c-span and everybody that works there. i have several points. i live in a small community. we have a town probably 20 miles from here. it's called boine city. they're going to be building a factory that produces surgical instruments. they're based, i think, out of sue saint marie, michigan but there's also some very negatives. i had my wages slashed, a summer job i had. i worked in education by $1.50 an hour down to $10 an hour. that's not a...
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their other states and steve if you want to talk a little bit about that word is then done in a much more i don't want to say congenial but perhaps less conflict ridden arena, does it matter? does everybody get to the same place at the end of the day? are the reforms the same or are we seeing a convergence there? >> it is hard -- two states i mentioned that a been fairly successful in the last year at getting union and states to sit down and agree would be vermont and delaware. now, both have democratic governors. but, vermont started their reforms a year ago when they had a republican governor. and, you know maybe it is because the states are relatively small and a cumbre stations are a lot more intimate. somebody in vermont told me, actually it was the former governor, said that it is very likely your next-door neighbor is a teacher or a firefighter, so you can personalize the debate a little bit more and you can visualize that we are talking about your neighbor here whereas in larger states it is harder to do that. at any rate, in those days they were determined, to governors, sha
their other states and steve if you want to talk a little bit about that word is then done in a much more i don't want to say congenial but perhaps less conflict ridden arena, does it matter? does everybody get to the same place at the end of the day? are the reforms the same or are we seeing a convergence there? >> it is hard -- two states i mentioned that a been fairly successful in the last year at getting union and states to sit down and agree would be vermont and delaware. now, both...
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steve larsen who is director of the centers for consumer information, an insurance oversight or the cchio with the centers for medicare and medicaid services. prior to his current position, mr. larsen served as director of the division of insurance oversight at cchio. welcome, mr. larsen. you will have 5 minutes to present your testimony. thank you. >> good morning, chairwoman ellmers, ranking member majors and members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to discuss how the affordable care act is improving the affordibility, accessibility and the quality of health insurance available to small businesses and their employees. providing and maintaining health insurance coverage for employees has been a challenge for small businesses for many years. states have struggled for decades, really, to improve their small group health insurance market, and i know this from my many years of experiences, insurance commissioner in the state of maryland. small businesses pay significantly more than large firms for the same health insurance policy. some estimates put that at about 18% more.
steve larsen who is director of the centers for consumer information, an insurance oversight or the cchio with the centers for medicare and medicaid services. prior to his current position, mr. larsen served as director of the division of insurance oversight at cchio. welcome, mr. larsen. you will have 5 minutes to present your testimony. thank you. >> good morning, chairwoman ellmers, ranking member majors and members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to discuss how the...
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and, um, steve jobs once said if you want to predict the future, the best way to predict the future is to invent it. and these three gentlemen have all had something to do with the creation of the internet and post-internet. you are illustrious ceo, walter isaacson back when he was at time as editor in if 1994 released one of the very first internet portals called path finder which is still out there today. biz stone and ev williams, co-founders of blogger and twitter, both of those inventions will be, we'll be feeling the repercussions of that for another generation at least. so without further ado, walter isaacson, biz stone and ev williams. [applause] >> thank you, biz, thank you, ev, for -- i'm sorry, say that again? >> [inaudible] >> okay. can you put your name tag back on so i can remember that? >> doesn't matter. >> doesn't matter? okay. by the way, we are actually going to start with a piece of news. about the future of the internet and, seriously, a significant piece of news. these are the co-founders of twitter, and can they have something to announce today. biz, you want to
and, um, steve jobs once said if you want to predict the future, the best way to predict the future is to invent it. and these three gentlemen have all had something to do with the creation of the internet and post-internet. you are illustrious ceo, walter isaacson back when he was at time as editor in if 1994 released one of the very first internet portals called path finder which is still out there today. biz stone and ev williams, co-founders of blogger and twitter, both of those inventions...
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. >> i really do have a bird eye's view on this and eric, you're pretty close -- steve, you're pretty close to what happened here. >> the initial memo came about, frankly, as a lot of discussion in the campaign. >> uh-huh. >> and the president agreed that if people are strictly complying with state medical marijuana laws, it shouldn't be a federal enforcement priority. the problem was, most of the medical marijuana laws at that time were kind of the -- what we had in colorado, the grow your own caretaker sort of thing. we did not have the dispensary on every corner model. we moved to that, other states are -- have moved to it or are contemplating moving to it and i'll tell you what's going on in ombcp. they're nervous at heck of that handout. the rate of teenage use of marijuana and the only thing that's changed in the market is the medical marijuana phenomenon. the teenage use of marijuana is increasing significantly. and i know for a fact they don't want to be responsible for returns to 1979 levels of marijuana use in this country. that's what's going and the justice department said
. >> i really do have a bird eye's view on this and eric, you're pretty close -- steve, you're pretty close to what happened here. >> the initial memo came about, frankly, as a lot of discussion in the campaign. >> uh-huh. >> and the president agreed that if people are strictly complying with state medical marijuana laws, it shouldn't be a federal enforcement priority. the problem was, most of the medical marijuana laws at that time were kind of the -- what we had in...